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List of Bilderberg Attendees

Bilderberg 2010 Participants/Attendees

Bilderberg Meetings
Sitges, Spain June 3-6, 2010

Final List of Participants

Honorary Chairman: BEL, Davignon, Etienne
Vice Chairman: Suez-Tractebel

DEU, Ackermann, Josef, Chair. of the Management Board, Deutsche Bank AG
GBR, Agius, Marcus, Chairman, Barclays Bank PLC
TUR, Akir Vatan, Ru en , Today’s Zaman Journalist
ESP, Alierta, César, Chairman and CEO, Telefónica
INT, Almunia, Joaquín, Commissioner, European Commission
USA, Altman, Roger C. Chairman, Evercore Partners Inc.
USA, Arrison, Sonia, Author and policy analyst
SWE, Bäckström, Urban, Director General, Confederation of Swedish Enterprise
PRT, Balsemâo. Francisco Pinto, Chairman and CEO, IMPRESA, S.G.P.S.; Former Prime Minister
ITA, Bernabé. Franco, CEO, Telecom Italia S.p.A.
SWE, Bildt, Carl, Minister of Foreign Affairs
FIN, Blåfield Antti, Senior Editorial Writer, Helsingin Sanomat
ESP, Botín, Ana P., Executive Chairman, Banesto
NOR, Brandtzaeg, Svein Richard, CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA
AUT, Bronner, Oscar, Publisher and Editor, Der Standard
CAN, Campbell, Gordon, Premier of British Columbia
ESP, Carvajal Urquijo, Jaime, Managing Director, Advent International
FRA, Castries, Henri de, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO, AXA
ESP, Cebrián, Juan Luis, CEO, PRISA
ESP, Cisneros, Gustavo A., Chairman and CEO, Cisneros Group of Companies
CAN, Clark, W. Edmund, President and CEO, TD Bank Financial Group
USA, Collins, Timothy C., Senior Managing Director and CEO, Ripplewood Holdings, LLC
ITA, Conti, Fulvio, CEO and General Manager, Enel SpA
GRC, David, George A., Chairman, Coca-Cola H.B.C. S.A.
DNK, Eldrup, Anders, CEO, DONG Energy
ITA, Elkann, John, Chairman, Fiat S.p.A.
DEU, Enders, Thomas, CEO, Airbus SAS
ESP, Entrecanales, José M., Chairman, Acciona
DNK, Federspiel, Ulrik, Vice President Global Affairs, Haldor Topsoe A/S
USA, Feldstein, Martin S., George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University
USA, Ferguson, Niall, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University
AUT, Fischer, Heinz, Federal President
IRL, Gallagher, Paul, Attorney General
USA, Gates, William H., Co-chair, Gates Foundation and Chairman, Microsoft Corp.
USA, Gordon, Philip H., Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs
USA, Graham, Donald E., Chairman and CEO, The Washington Post Company
INT, Gucht, Karel de, Commissioner, European Commission
TUR, Gürel, Z. Damla, Special Adviser to the President on EU Affairs
NLD, Halberstadt, Victor, Prof. of Eco., Leiden Univ; Former Hon Sec. Gen. of Bilderberg
USA, Holbrooke, Richard C., Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
NLD, Hommen, Jan H.M., Chairman, ING Group
USA, Hormats, Robert D., Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs
BEL, Huyghebaert, Jan, Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group
USA, Johnson, James A., Vice Chairman, Perseus, LLC
FIN, Katainen, Jyrki, Minister of Finance
USA, Keane, John M., Senior Partner, SCP Partners
GBR, Kerr, John, Mem., House of Lords; Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc.
USA, Kissinger, Henry A., Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc.
USA, Kleinfeld, Klaus, Chairman and CEO, Alcoa
TUR, Koc, Mustafa V., Chairman, KOÁ Holding A.
USA, Kravis, Henry R., Founding Partner, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
USA, Kravis, Marie-JosÈe, Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute, Inc.
INT, Kroes, Neelie, Commissioner, European Commission
USA, Lander, Eric S., President and Director, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT
FRA, Lauvergeon, Anne, Chairman of the Executive Board, AREVA
ESP, León Gross, Bernardino, Secretary General, Office of the Prime Minister
DEU, L´Scher, Peter, Chairman of the Board of Management, Siemens AG
NOR, Magnus, Birger, Chairman, Storebrand ASA
CAN, Mansbridge, Peter, Chief Correspondent, Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
USA, Mathews, Jessica T., President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
CAN, McKenna, Frank, Deputy Chair, TD Bank Financial Group
GBR, Micklethwait, John, Editor-in-Chief, The Economist
FRA, Montbrial, Thierry de, President, French Institute for International Relations
ITA, Monti, Mario, President, Universitá Commerciale Luigi Bocconi
INT, Moyo, Dambisa F., Economist and Author
USA, Mundie, Craig J., Chief Research and Strategy Officer, Microsoft Corp.
NOR, Myklebust, Egil, Former Chair. of the Board of Directors SAS, Norsk Hydro ASA
USA, Naím, Moisés, Editor-in-Chief, Foreign Policy
ESP, Nin Génova, Juan María, President and CEO, La Caixa
DNK, Nyrup Rasmussen, Poul, Former Prime Minister
GBR, Oldham, John, National Clinical Lead for Quality and Productivity
FIN, Ollila, Jorma, Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell plc
USA, Orszag, Peter R., Director, Office of Management and Budget
TUR, Ozilhan, Tuncay, Chairman, Anadolu Group
ITA, Padoa-Schioppa, Tommaso, Former Minister of Finance; President of Notre Europe
GRC, Papaconstantinou, George, Minister of Finance
USA, Parker, Sean, Managing Partner, Founders Fund
USA, Pearl, Frank H., Chairman and CEO, Perseus, LLC
USA, Perle, Richard N., Resident Fellow, Ame. Enterprise Inst. for Public Policy Research
ESP, Polanco, Ignacio, Chairman, Grupo PRISA
CAN, Prichard, J. Robert S., President and CEO, Metrolinx
NLD, Queen Beatrix, Queen of Netherlands
ESP, Queen Sofia , Queen of Spain
FRA, Ramanantsoa, Bernard, Dean, HEC Paris Group
PRT, Rangel, Paulo, Member, European Parliament
CAN, Reisman, Heather M., Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc.
SWE, Renström, Lars, President and CEO, Alfa Laval
NLD, Rinnooy Kan, Alexander H.G., Chairman, Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER)
ITA, Rocca, Gianfelice, Chairman, Techint
ESP, Rodriguez Inciarte, MatÌas, Executive Vice Chairman, Grupo Santander
USA, Rose, Charlie, Producer, Rose Communications
USA, Rubin, Robert E., Co-Chairman, CFR; Former Sec. of the Treasury
TUR, Sabanci Dincer, Suzan, Chairman, Akbank
ITA, Scaroni, Paolo, CEO, Eni S.p.A.
USA, Schmidt, Eric, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Google
AUT, Scholten, Rudolf, Mem. Board of Exe. Dir., Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG
DEU, Scholz, OlafVice, Chairman, SPD
INT, Sheeran, Josette, Executive Director, United Nations World Food Program
INT, Solana Madariaga, Javier, Former Secretary General, Council of the European Union
USA, Steinberg, James B., Deputy Secretary of State
INT, Stigson, Björn, President, World Business Council for Sustainable Development
USA, Summers, Lawrence H., Director, National Economic Council
IRL, Sutherland, Peter D., Chairman, Goldman Sachs International
GBR, Taylor, J. Martin, Chairman, Syngenta International AG
PRT, Teixeira dos Santos, Fernando, Minister of State and Finance
USA, Thiel, Peter A., President, Clarium Capital Management, LLC
GRC, Tsoukalis, Loukas, President, ELIAMEP
INT, Tumpel-Gugerell, Gertrude, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
USA, Varney, Christine A., Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust
CHE, Vasella, Daniel L., Chairman, Novartis AG
USA, Volcker, Paul A., Chairman, Economic Recovery Advisory Board
CHE, Voser, Peter, CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc
FIN, Wahlroos, Björn, Chairman, Sampo plc
CHE, Waldvogel, Francis A., Chairman, Novartis Venture Fund
SWE, Wallenberg, Jacob, Chairman, Investor AB
NLD, Wellink, Nout , President, De Nederlandsche Bank
USA, West, F.J. Bing, Author
GBR, Williams, Shirley, Member, House of Lords
USA, Wolfensohn, James D., Chairman, Wolfensohn & Company, LLC
ESP, Zapatero, José Luis Rodriguez, Prime Minister
DEU, Zetsche, Dieter, Chairman, Daimler AG
INT, Zoellick, Robert B., President, The World Bank Group


Rapporteurs

GBR, Bredow, Vendeline von, Business Correspondent, The Economist
GBR, Wooldridge, Adrian D., Business Correspondent, The Economist

US Attendees at Bilderburg Conference are Law-breakers, say Activists

US attendees at ‘world government’ meeting may be breaking law: activists

By Daniel Tencer
Friday, June 4th, 2010

Activists protesting outside this year's meeting of the secretive Bilderberg Group say American citizens attending the meeting may be breaking the law.

The 56-year-old group, which hosts some of the world's most influential financiers and politicians on annual basis, is alleged to have been the driving force behind the launch of several wars and behind a push to create a single global government -- a claim that many observers describe as not credible.

Among the attendees of previous years' meetings were former President Bill Clinton; former UK prime ministers Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Margaret Thatcher; World Bank head Robert Zoellick; former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke; and US statesman Henry Kissinger. The Independent reports that this year's attendees include Jean-Claude Trichet, head of the European Central Bank, and Queen Reina of Spain. Russia Today reports of "rumors" that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is attending this year's meeting.

Though, of course, there is no way to be certain who is at the conference. This year's meeting is taking place this weekend in Sitges, Spain, a beach resort town south of Barcelona. Like every year, the meeting is closed to the press, and its agenda and list of attendees are secret.

Some protesters outside the meeting say the participation of US citizens in the meeting is forbidden by law. One protester told RT that the Logan Act of 1799 forbids US citizens from negotiating in secret with representatives of foreign governments. Thus, if any American attendee were to come to an agreement on any issue, it could be a violation of federal law.

With Europe focused on the debt crisis in Greece and other countries, European protesters focused on the Bilderberg Group's alleged involvement in the creation of the European Union and Europe's monetary union.

Daniel Estulin, an investigator who has written two books about Bilderberg, told RT that the big question at this year's meeting is whether the Euro will survive the continent's fiscal crisis.

But Estulin said people are mistaken to think the Bilderberg Group is working towards a world government. "Their plan is not about creating one world government, as so many people mistakenly believe, but rather creating what they call themselves the 'aristocracy of purpose' between North American and European elites. ... In other words, the creation of 'One World Company Ltd.' And to have one world company, you can't have countries, you need to have economic blocks."

'BALONEY'

Members of the Bilderberg Group themselves may share some of the blame for the concerns about the group secretly pushing for a global government. In a 2001 book, author Jon Ronson quotes Denis Healey, one of Bilderberg founding members, as saying: "To say we were striving for a one-world government is exaggerated, but not wholly unfair. Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn't go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing."

But not everyone considers this to mean that Bilderberg is building a new world order. Investigative journalist Chip Berlet told Russia Today that the myriad conspiracy theories surrounding the Bilderberg Group are nonsense.

"This idea that the Bilderberg Group is a secret elite force that controls the world economy and is building a new world order is a giant pot of spoiled borscht made from rotten beets," he told the Russian news service.

Berlet noted that "there are 15 or 20 other similar groups that have secret meetings" and that "most meetings between corporate leaders and government officials are secret."

The theories about Bilderberg are "a hoax carried out by people who believe an elaborate fairy tale," he said.

But Berlet admitted that "from a [public relations] perspective it's idiotic to have secret meetings with secret guest lists and a secret agenda. Of course that encourages conspiracy theories."

He added that "the organization itself has no power. This idea that this is a plot that is carried out by 30 or 40 countries is baloney."

Geithner: ‘I’ve never had a real job’

Well, I guess that's why he doesn't pay his taxes, either...

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Responding to critics, Geithner claims, ‘I’ve never had a real job’

By Stephen C. Webster
Sunday, April 25th, 2010

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner might not have ever held a "real job" according to anyone cut from blue collar cloth, but his resume is quite well padded after years of hob-knobbing with the world's most powerful people in government, finance, banking and the media -- in spite of what he might claim to the press.

Specifically, Geithner claimed during a recent CNN interview, "I've never had a real job," remarking on the popular myth that he's worked in banking and on Wall Street for much of his life.

This is only partially true. While he's never worked manual labor or customer service, Geithner's resume is much more cultured than he makes it seem.

The National Names Database, which tracks the social networks of the rich and powerful, lists a number of interesting associations in Geithner's past, including the International Monetary Fund, Kissinger Associates, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Bilderberg Group.

Though these groups are only quasi-governmental organizations, the Journal characterizes Geithner's body of work as entirely based in government.

That he'd spent his life in banking and on Wall Street "is part of a narrative that hardened," Geithner recently told CNN host Fareed Zakaria. "People came to view the judgments we were making through the prism of a myth … it’s actually very damaging. It’s completely false, of course, and it, you know, should have been corrected a long time ago."

Though not a governmental organization, Geithner was part of Kissinger Associates from 1985-1988, after having recently graduated with a masters in international economics and east Asian studies from the School of Advanced International Studies. During that same period, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger was under contract with Italian bank Banca Nazionale del Lavoro (BNL) Consulting Board for International Policy, which made approximately $4 billion in unreported loans to Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Said directly: BNL, which helped provide financing that would ultimately arm Iraq, was a client of Kissinger Associates while Geithner worked there.

Thoug accused of misleading the public on BNL's relationship with Iraq by Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez (D-TX) in 1992, Kissinger professed to gave no knowledge of the loans, but did not resign his post at BNL until 18 months after the scandal broke. The former Nixon administration official and former boss to Mr. Geithner would later be chosen by the Bush administration to oversee the 9/11 Commission, but he stepped down after tremendous outcry by families of the victims.

Geithner's time at the IMF and Bilderberg Group are also likely contributing factors to the mistaken impression that he's spent a lifetime working in banking and finance.

The 186-member-nation IMF has seen its role in international finance increase dramatically in recent years as both a bouy and burden to poor nations, which often accept IMF financing for ambitious projects but come up short on repayment. Some have argued this model is by design. The group recently sold over 400 tons of gold to enhance its lending capacity as a way of making it less dependent on lending revenue to cover expenses.

Washington-based IMF recently saw an additional 13 potential countries join 26 other nations in committing money to the so-called New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB), a third-world lending program which was originally targeted at 500 billion dollars.

That amount swelled to $600 billion after President Obama and congressional Democrats extended $100 billion in credit to the IMF under its New Arrangements to Borrow, explaining that because the group offered an exchange of interest-bearing assets the credit posed no addition to the U.S. deficit.

IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has been a vocal proponent of a new "global" currency that would replace the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve. Proposals along these lines have mainly centered upon the IMF overseeing a currency traded only by governments, based on the group's "Special Drawing Rights".

The group recently said world economies are in for a painful period of "rebalancing," which The Washington Post interpreted as meaning for wealthy nations, "Suck it up. The party's over."

Additionally, Geithner's time with the Bilderberg Group could have certainly enhanced the myth of his resume: the organization is a favorite target of conspiracy theorists due to its annual "invitation only" meeting of the world's most wealthy and powerful individuals, including many banking and finance elite along with members of the news and entertainment media.

It's critics claim Bilderberg plans to orchestrate a financial calamity that would topple the U.S. economy from its dominant position, though the group insists their yearly meeting is informal and does not directly affect public policies the world over.

The Treasury Secretary has also put in time with the RAND Corporation, a centrist thinktank first established by the U.S. Air Force, focused mostly on foreign policy and national security. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a highly influential foreign policy thinktank.

In other words, "what I say is that I never had a real job," Geithner told the Journal.

With a history like Geithner's, such a statement might lead one to wonder how he defines real work.